Teng Chong turned his head and shouted at the man who was leaning on the ground, "Get up, hurry up and give Lao Tzu up, if you don't get up and eat Lao Tzu again." With that, he drew the big knife from his waist.

The blade collided with the scabbard with a crisp sound, and the onlookers retreated in fright.

The man on his back got up and knelt down at the door of the cabin and cried, "My poor Heniang, why did you leave me alone...... what do you want me to do in the future......

In the Celestial Empire, where men's emotions are mainly subtle, it is really rare for men to show their emotions like this.

Yeats was about to step forward, but he unconsciously took a few steps back, retreated into the crowd, and whispered gossip with the people around him.

The boat was parked here for two days, and the man and the woman had a very good relationship, and the woman was very willing to spend money to buy food and clothing for the man, and it cost hundreds of dollars to go ashore on the first day yesterday alone, which is very remarkable in the poor low-class society.

Yeats noticed that the clothes on the man's body were indeed different from the gray cotton robes around him, they were satin, and the cotton in the sandwich was very thick, and the small life was indeed good.

Teng Chong hates this kind of incompetent man who knows how to cry as soon as he comes up, and his impatience is clearly expressed, "You sissy, believe it or not, cry again Lao Tzu will give you a knife." "Speaking of raising the knife, it looks like it's really going to be cut down.

The middle-aged man stopped howling for a moment, as if he had just seen the official errand, "Big ...... My lord...... I woman, she couldn't think about it, hanged herself, and ...... said, "I want to howl again."

"You cry and try it......" Teng Chong's big knife shone faintly in the night light.

The middle-aged man was so frightened that he held his breath and remained silent.

Teng Chong turned his head at this time, "Lord Ye...... "This guy is not a good thing at first glance, hurry up and ask if there is really a case?"

Only then did everyone find out that a group of men in official uniforms, it turned out that the thinnest man who looked like a teenager was the head, so small was a big official, it seemed that it was a child of a wealthy and aristocratic family, looking weak and casual, what could he do? Besides, a woman hanged herself, and everyone just came to see the excitement.

Yeats stepped onto the gangplank unhurriedly, and did not go to the stern of the boat, but bent down along the side of the cabin and stretched out his hand to uncover the tarpaulin that covered the cabin, and a boatload of snow-white cotton was exposed to meet people's eyes.

In the cold wind of early winter, people seem to feel warm.

Some people couldn't help but sigh, "This ship has to be sold for a lot of money!" ”

In this era, growing grain and cotton is not like chemical fertilizers and pesticides in later generations, to grow a good season of crops, in addition to hard work, the rest depends on God's face, the wind and rain are smooth and less insect plague can be harvested, otherwise there may not even be a food and clothing can not be solved.

In the past two years, the Great Wei Dynasty has become more and more stable under the governance of the new emperor, people's lives are much better than before, the weather is getting colder and colder, people are loose, and they are probably willing to add a quilt to their homes, or put a warm cotton jacket, if this boat of cotton is sold, I am afraid that it will earn a lot of income.

The nervous and restless eyes of the middle-aged man kneeling at the stern of the boat flickered, and when he saw Teng Chong turn his head, he showed a sad face, "My poor Heniang...... Isn't it just that a boatload of cotton can't be sold at a good price, why don't you think about hanging it, you go, let me live in the future! ”

Yeats stood by the side of the boat, took everything in his eyes, put down the tarpaulin in his hand, and turned to the stern.

The mourning middle-aged man subconsciously moved to the stern twice.

Teng Chong stepped out of the way.

Yeats walked to the door of the wooden door of the cabin, and Yang Fuquan ran quickly from the crowd behind, holding the tool bag of Yeats's investigation in his hand, and he was followed by Yan Yanzuo.

Yeats looked at the woman in the inner room, then turned his head to look at the middle-aged man at the stern, pointed to the person behind Xiao Quanzi and said: "See, this uncle is a famous man in Dali Temple, who has solved countless cases, and is known as Yan Shenshou, if you tell the truth now, you can be lenient, if we find out, it will not be good." ”

"Check ...... What ...... to check" The middle-aged man's face turned pale, his eyes rolled twice, and he suddenly howled, "God, what kind of sin have I done, I have killed my mother, and I will be regarded as a murderer, I will not live anymore......"

Before everyone could react, the middle-aged man had already jumped into the winter canal.

Teng Chong raised his hand and shouted, "Zhang Jin, Li Jun, hurry down and pull people up." ”

"Yes, head."

The two quickly took off their thick clothes to draw water, and jumped into the water to pull people in a blink of an eye.

As soon as he folded, the middle-aged man was pulled up.

Yeats waited for the middle-aged man to be pulled up, changed into a dry coat, and wrapped in a quilt before he and Yan Cheng examined the wounds of the deceased.

The woman was in her early thirties and looked ordinary, but she was dressed up, her face was powdered, and her clothes were eighty percent new, which was not practical in the Grand Canal, where she made a living from running boats.

Yan Yan took a look and touched the ...... Investigate carefully.

Yeats was not idle, she first looked at the surrounding environment, the room was dirty and messy, clothes and food were stacked at random, and the clothes on the bed were crumpled and piled up in the bed.

She turned to look at the woman again, and bent down to look at her face, hands, and soles......

After a while, Yan Yanzuo concluded: "The bruise marks on the woman's neck are not left by hanging, the traces of hanging by the rope should be thin and deep, and the bruises are purple in the blood, Lord Ye, you see, this bruise is two fingers wide, and there are shallow marks left by the strength of the fingers around it, which is obviously suffocated by someone by hand." ”

The onlookers were in an uproar, they were all laboring people who went by boat to beg for a living, and they all lived their duty, but they didn't expect that there was a murder case around them.

"What's the matter, why did this man kill his mother-in-law, why did he have a good life, but ......"

"That's right, if this boatload of cotton is sold, it will definitely be a good year this year, how good, why ...... it?"

……

Yeats walked up to the middle-aged man who was slumped on the deck, "Big brother, I jumped into the river just now, I didn't want to die but I wanted to escape!" ”

The facts were revealed, and the middle-aged man no longer pretended, revealing a scoundrel and fierce look, and his eyes almost popped up to glare at Yeats, "If it weren't for you guys ruining Lao Tzu's good deeds, Lao Tzu would have made a fortune soon." ”

Hearing the middle-aged man admit, people finally believed that this was not an official who had nothing to do and deliberately found fault with someone, it was really a murder!

Yeats pointed to the upper hanging rope facing the cabin door and said, "See? This knot is loose and loose and has never been used at all, you say that people are hanged, no one will believe it except you yourself! ”

Some of the onlookers looked ashamed, "The old man believed it, and when he returned to the boat and found his mother-in-law hanging herself and screaming, we all believed it." ”

The people around him nodded in agreement.

Yeats:......

The old man couldn't understand: "Although the boat has only stopped for two days, we also met in Pingshui, but in the morning I saw that his woman was very good to him, and he went ashore early in the morning to buy him food and drink, and he was very willing, how could he still kill his mother-in-law?" ”

Yeats turned his head to look at the middle-aged man who was neat and outstanding among the toiling masses, and then turned to the crowd and said, "Because they are not husband and wife at all." ”

"God, they are concubines...... "Everyone can't believe it.

The middle-aged man died and refused to admit it: "Whoever said it, Heniang will be the mother-in-law......"

Yeats said calmly: "Teng catches the head—"

"Lord Ye......"

"Find out his road guide, take the road guide to the county government to check whether they are husband and wife."

"Yes."

The middle-aged man suddenly languished and pretended to be dead and didn't speak.

When everyone saw this, what else didn't they understand, they all pointed at the middle-aged man, "It turned out to be not a thing......

In fact, in ancient times, it was impossible for the county government to share information with each other as in later generations, and to find out whether the two were husband and wife, they had to go to the local county government to check with the information.

But the little people can't stand the flickering.

Yeats They were just passing by, and the case still had to be handed over to the local county government for disposal, Teng Chong was just about to take someone to Shanyang County to hand over, and Pei Jingning, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, came back, followed by the Shanyang County Order.

I saw him nodding his head, "The old man will do it immediately." After that, he arranged for the county lieutenant to deal with the case quickly.

Yeats reminded: "This man is from the Jingling area, this woman does not have the calluses that peasant women are accustomed to, she should be a lazy woman, eloped with a man with a boatload of valuable cotton, and it is estimated that there is still a murder in her hand." ”

The middle-aged man who was about to be arrested looked at Yeats as if he had seen a ghost, "You...... You...... Is it a human or a ghost...... It's still the ...... who followed us all the way."

Yeats was indifferent, "A woman who is lazy and pleasing to the little white face is likely to be unable to withstand the little white face and will do something very dangerous." ”

......The fire of gossip among the onlookers was ignited, and even some people were willing to delay their business, so they had to stay and wait for the Shanyang County Ya to find out the truth and see if the truth was as Xiulang petty officials said.

Of course, these are all later stories, and Yeats and others certainly don't know.

On the second day, Master Pei went ashore early in the morning, and no one knew what to do.

Yeats was invited by the Shanyang County Lieutenant to help him solve the case, "Lord Ye, do you mean that they robbed this boatload of cotton, so they may have killed someone?" ”

Yeats shook his head, "Maybe this boatload of cotton belongs to the woman's family, and she may have killed her husband." ”

The county lieutenant thanked him, "The next officer will go and investigate." ”

From Shanyang to Jingling, it takes at least five or six days to go back and forth, Yeats and others can't wait, and there are some cases about autopsy in the hands of the Shanyang County Lieutenant, and the Yazhong asked Lord Yan for advice, and they stayed in the county government for a day, and they did not return to the ship until the evening.

When he returned to the ship, Pei Jingning still did not come back, and it was not until after dinner and when Yeats was ready to rest that he returned to the ship with a chill.

Yeats heard the greetings of the two Mingzhu opposite, since the last seasickness gaffe, although they were in the same boat, they deliberately avoided it, and they had not come into contact with each other for many days.

As criminal investigators, Ming and Pearl frequently come and go in her room, and it is impossible not to notice the details of her menstrual affairs, and the two of them act like no one.

The more this happened, the more certain Yeats was that the two girls must have known that she was a woman.

The two girls know, does that mean that someone also knows?